§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSI beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time."
This is a Bill which was referred to the other day when the Supplementary Estimate was before the Committee of the House. It is a Bill which really has only two Clauses. Clause 1 incorporates the Trustees of the Endowment Fund by the name of the Imperial War Graves Endowment Fund Trustees. They are the Trustees who are being set up for the Imperial War Graves Endowment Fund, and, as was explained the other day in Committee, a sum of £ 5,000,000 is to be contributed, as to 81 per cent. or thereabouts by the funds of the United Kingdom, and as to the balance by the various Dominions who share in the fund. In order that that money shall be in trust perpetually, and that the Income shall be accumulated in order that the capital sum shall be raised, this Bill is brought in to incorporate the Trustees, and, notwithstanding anything in the Charter, the Trustees shall have power to accumulate the income of the fund. Hon. Members will remember that it was stated on the
§ Gratuities, Injury Grants, &c., which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March 1927."